This Day in Golf History--July 22

The Open for the Ages, the mythical R&A project that took the place of the real thing and finished on Sunday with Jack Nicklaus the “winner” at St. Andrews, had an Old Course predecessor that featured plenty of drama among legends. On this date in 1984, Spain’s Seve Ballesteros birdied the 18th hole while Tom Watson bogeyed the 17th, giving Ballesteros a two-shot victory over Watson and Bernhard Langer. The defeat ended Watson’s two-year win streak and was Ballesteros’ second of three Open titles.